Gold Records in Deep Space
...what these traces offer when carefully and imaginatively considered: glimpses of the musicians and their complex cultural worlds, as well as ways in which recordings and archival material can reveal...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...like Appalachia and New Orleans. He also rightly calls out critics who have considered Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris the sine qua non of southern local color writing....
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
Review Photographer unknown, Unidentified miners from southwest Virginia, 1930s. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. Amid the current wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, numerous US cities and states are reexamining their...
Whiskey and Geography
...song paid tribute to its transformative power. To most it was considered a God-given right. Taxing Whiskey In 1794, when Alexander Hamilton and other leaders proposed raising internal revenue for...
On Fair Use
...of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research." The limits of fair use doctrine continue to spark controversy as academic...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...she also makes the important argument that obesity should be considered among the health effects of petrochemicals. Indeed, Orff's unique and accessible depictions of complex systems that comprise "petrochemical America"...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...starved, Stoll asserts, and they should not be considered poor. Man digging coal by machinery low ceiling, Brown, West Virginia, 1908. Photographic print by Lewis Wickes Hine. Courtesy of the...
Place, Time, and Memory
Place, Time, and Memory Part 2: Works that reveal the passage of time and nature upon buildings and landscapes Part 3: Origins and intentions ofChristenberry's “Klan Tableau,” the creation of “Dream Buildings,”...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...Emory, I knew that this was going to be a wonderful opportunity for honest academic conversation. As I said to Craig in my initial response, I have always considered intellectual...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...Florida Folklife," All Things Considered, February 28, 2002, NPR Hearing Voices, http:// hearingvoices.com/transcript.php?fID =23. In his unpublished manuscript on Hurston's career and his time working with her on what became...